Thursday, 24 April 2008

The I-word

Amongst all the blaming of "male relatives", "the Saudi establishment", "the government", etcetera, the BBC report in question (whether following the lead of the organisation "Human Rights Watch" or not, I don't know) somehow, somehow, somehow managed to not even question as to whether Saudi women being denied their human dignity and treated by as children might be something to do with their Islamic beliefs. Inexplicably, the BBC managed to not even mention Islam at all in the article.

On the same day the BBC also ran a story about how Islamic scholars were proclaiming Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, was rightly proclaimed by the Koran as the centre of the world. Yet the Koran didn't even get a footnote in the explanation of why Saudi women are treated as second class citizens. Go figure...